//README file for Replication Data for "Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers" by Mitra, Mookherjee, Torero & Visaria (2017)

//The analysis was done on Stata/SE 12.1 for Windows (64-bit x86-64), last revised on 23 Jan 2014.
//We provide the following files. Each is described in brief below.

//Do file: replication.do
This do file consists the code to produce all of the tables and the figure in the paper, as well as the tables in the online appendix.

//Log file: replicationtesting.log
This is the log file created when the corresponding author executed replication.do.

//Data file 1: analysisdata.dta
This is the main dataset that was created from the farmer surveys conducted in 2008. Variables are labelled in the dataset.
The data are organised at the level of "uniqueid variety quality monthround weeksold".

//Data file 2: mandiprices.dta
This file contains weekly information about mandi prices for multiple years. Variables are labelled in the dataset.
The data are arranged at the level of "mzid mv_mktgroup year week".

//Data file 3: information2008data.dta
This file contains information about the farmers' price tracking behavior, collected every fortnight through farmer surveys. Variables are labelled in the dataset.
The data are organised at the level of "uniqueid variety monthround".

//Data file 4: villagehaatpxdata.dta
This file contains haat price information at the village level. Variables are labelled in the dataset.
The data are organised at the level of "mzid market variety monthround weeksold".

//Data file 5: graphdata.dta
This file contains weekly mandi prices and the farmgate prices received by farmers in the catchment areas of the mandis in control villages and the two types of intervention villages, separately.
Variables are labelled in the dataset.
The data are organised at the level of "market variety weeksold intvn".

//Data file 6: descriptivesdata.dta
This file contains data from the baseline survey about the characteristics of sample households. The data are organised at the household level.

//Data file 7: mandiprices_median.dta
This file contains data from 2008 about the villages that fall in the catchment areas of the mandis. Variables are labelled in the dataset.
The data are organised at the level of "mv_mktgroup".
